Saturday, February 25, 2012

This has been an exciting month at Papertrey Ink - Lots of fun and innovative products were released during their 5th Anniversary Celebrations. Several of the new dies and stamp sets focus on making interactive cards -Spinners, Poppers, Sliders and Zippers!!

This month's Blog Hop has challenged us to make a card with an interactive feature.

After many attempts (and lots of discarded stamping and papers) I was determined to keep trying. Giving up after investing so much time was not an option!! It's not my most favourite card, but I think I will try this design again, now that I have figured out some of the tricks to making it work!!

Thursday, February 16, 2012

This is a birthday card I made for my niece who lives in New Zealand. She loves a 'cuppa' tea, so I though the little Teacup Girl (Stamping Bella) would be the perfect image for her card!!

The card base (Core'dinations: Bahama Blue) has been embossed with the Cuttlebug Polka Dot Embossing folder. I wanted a little more texture and interest so I added a 'dot' of glitter to each of the polka dots!! The Teacup Girl image was stamped and coloured with copic markers and then cut out using Nestabilities Label #4. The sentiment "Tea Time"(Tea for Two Additions)and the leaf image (Just For You) were stamped onto the tea cup with Memento Tuxedo Black ink so that I could use my Copic markers to colour the cup.

I love PTI's Bloom Builder's #3 die set. It can create a large fluffy flower or a smaller version like the one I use on this card. I pulled the colours from the tea cup and the background card stock to make this detail, and then added three small tags (Stampin'Up's Tiny Tags punch and border stamp). The sentiments are from PTI's Tiny Tags, Tiny Tags II and Tea for Two Additions. I used my copic markers to colour the tags so they blend with the rest of the card.

The inside uses the dandelion images fromBotanical Silhouettesand sentiments from DaydreamerandJust the Ticket.

Papertrey Ink's Flower Fusion #2 Diewas offered as a giveawayon my blog between Feb. 2 and Feb. 5th, 2012. A winner was announced on Monday February 6th. Unfortunately, the individual who won did not provide any contact information and has not e-mailed me with that information.

Therefore I revisited the list of comments and randomly selected an alternate winner. Congratulations to Leigh!!

Saturday, February 11, 2012

I finally got a chance to participate in some of the festivities atPapertrey Ink's 5th Anniversary Celebrations. TodayNichole Headyintroduced some wonderful new stamps and dies for February. One of my favourites is theHearts-2-Hearts #1setby Melissa Bickford. I can hardly wait to see the final reveal.

Meanwhile, I've set my sights on making a few cards for Valentine's Day with some of the stamp sets I already have. Today's challenge at Papertrey Ink was to make a card using Hearts!! I used a variety of stamps and dies for this:

Fly Away stamps and dies, Postmarks and Love Lives Here, along with the Sunshine Impression Plate were used to create a fairly simply and clean card. The little heart stamp was centered in the middle of each of the sunshine circles. I coloured the airplane with copic markers and added a little pearl to the tail. I tied a little piece of Pure Poppy Baker's Twine to the sentiment banner and attached it to the end of the airplane. Foam adhesives were used to raise the sentiment banner and the airplane on the card front.

The inside of the card uses the house and sentiment from Love Lives Here, with Pure Poppy and Chocolate inks.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

My little grand niece in New Zealand celebrated her first birthday last month, so I made this card and popped it in the mail at the beginning of January.

I started by stamping Cupcake Bugaboo (from Stamping Bella) onto white card stock and then colouring with copic markers. Stickles were used to accent the sprinkles on the cupcake. The image panel, as well as a pink and white polka dot mat was cut with the Nestabilities Label #11 die. Close to My Heart Buttercup ink was sponged around the edges of the image panel.

Pink Baker's Twine was tied around the front panel and onto the tag. Finally, a few clear bubble gems were added to the various flowers on the patterned paper and the edges were sponged with some Blush ink before attaching it to the card base.

The floral patterned paper gave me the inspiration to use the little flower from Tiny Tags for the sentiment.

And then .... a happy accident .......

I found that the Flower Fusion #2 die was perfect to use as a mat for the Tiny Tags flower. I used the die to cut a second layer from the polka dot paper.

If you have the Tiny Tags stamp and die set, (or even if you don't have them!) you may want to add the Flower Fusion #2die to your stash. And .........since I have an extra die I thought I would offer it to my blog visitors.

Just leave a comment at the end of this post by 11 pm Sunday February 5th (EST). I will randomly choose a name and post the results on my blog. Make sure to check back here on Feb 6th .

Edited Feb. 16, 2012

The original winner, ldid not respond, so it was necessary to re draw a winner from the comments. Please visit this post for the winner.

This 'tiny' give away is open to all blog visitors. Good Luck!! and Thanks for visiting today.

About Me

After teaching for 31 years, I retired in order to spend more time travelling, gardening and crafting!! I have always loved to sew and knit, but after I left teaching I decided it was time to organize all of the family pictures into scrapbooks. I haven't gotten too far on that project, as I started taking card making classes at the local scrap booking store and then became fascinated with stamping... now I can be 'lost' in my crafty room for hours at a time!! I have two grown sons and a very understanding and supportive husband.